critical-thinking-defense-coach

What problem does it solve? Researchers often become overconfident in their claims, overlook hidden assumptions, or ignore alternative explanations, leaving them unprepared for advisor, committee, or reviewer scrutiny. This Skill stress-tests research claims, interpretations, and conclusions before they face real criticism. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Five-Axis Socratic Critique: Systematically examines data, concepts/theories, point of view, assumptions, and conclusions to expose weak links in a research claim. - Conditional Interventions: Detects authority dependence, unexpected anomalies, and confirmation bias, then applies targeted probing for each pattern. - Reviewer Attack Simulation: Generates hostile but fair reviewer questions and assigns a three-sentence defense homework exercise. - Use Case: A graduate student preparing for a thesis defense submits their central claim, evidence, and assumptions, and receives a structured critique identifying the weakest assumption plus three simulated reviewer attacks to rehearse against. ## Quick Start Ask the coach to act as a skeptical reviewer and pressure-test your research claim by providing your claim, evidence, and assumptions.